MAD Climate – Making a Difference

International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander announced today that a new phase of a ground breaking project in Bangladesh to fight poverty and combat climate change will start in April.

For the first time, climate change has been shown to alter the timing of a natural event – the emergence of the common brown butterfly

HUNDREDS of students from Yorkshire and the Midlands are taking part in studies of Peak District moorlands this week as part of a project to discover the extent of climate change. (17/03/2010 23:05:55)

Canada 's climate researchers are being muzzled, their funding slashed, research stations closed, findings ignored and advice on the critical issue of the century unsought by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government, according to a 40-page report by a coalition of 60 non-governmental organisations.

Parts of a controversial campaign warning about the dangers of climate change have been banned after breaching advertising rules.

Government adverts that used nursery rhymes to warn of climate change have been branded by experts as 'simplistic communication tools' that have set back the fight against global warming back by several years.

Every car on the road will need to be electric and there will be solar panels on every home, 10,000 wind turbines onshore and 40 new nuclear power stations if the Government is to stand a chance of meeting strict climate change targets, engineers have warned.

Source: IRIN God, not global emissions, is to blame for climate change, according to a survey conducted in 10 African countries. A close second, however, came deforestation, underlining the argument that there is information available – just not sufficient or effective enough to help people understand the reasons behind environmental issues.

A Government campaign that uses nursery rhymes to warn of the dangers of climate change has been slammed by the advertising watchdog for exaggerating the damage done by global warming.

A Government campaign that uses nursery rhymes to warn of the dangers of climate change has been slammed by the advertising watchdog for exaggerating the damage done by global warming.